Funny English

[Ofnuts]

i try to get most things right in English.  but i like to avoid capitalization.  i remember an argument i once had with one of my English teachers.  she would mark wrong a mistake i made and tell me it was obvious.  no alternatives existed.  my position was that since any reader would know how it was supposed to be, then an error that did not create ambiguity was moot (because the reader could fix it ... in their mind).  i cn spel pthon wong und u noh whut i ment.

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i avoid capitalization at the beginning of sentences and the word "i" because not doing so does not make it unreadable.  if i were German i would likely do this for nouns, too.  Ich bin nicht deutsch

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Having a flat tire on your bike doesn't make it un-rideable either, and ice cream is still edible at 30°C. Did it occur to you that standard typography and grammar could have evolved to make reading as easy as possible and that not following these conventions makes you harder to read?

[Kebap]

Here's to another one I came to notice a lot in recent weeks, and which unfortunately will not even be noticed by your common typo-check as the words used seem perfectly okay:

I might of thought ...

There are very many variations, including but not limited to "would of", "could of", ... followed by even more other words, but the most important relation is never touched upon: "I have thought" --> "I might have thought". Whereas with "I might of ..." I really struggle to find any usage which would not have been marked as an error by my early English teachers. Then again, in spoken language, you may not even notice a difference, which is why this might be so common after all.

Cheers!

[sparkz_alot]

How about "It goes without saying...", or one of my pet peeves "irregardless", why make life more complicated by adding an additional "ir" to a perfectly good word that means the same thing 

[j.crater]

Irregardless could be opposite of regardless. Like undisclose is opposite of disclose, which itself is opposite of close, which ... oh nope it ends here.

[Larz60+]

You should meet my brother-in-law. He carries the Oxford dictionary
with him, wherever he goes, and is also a programmer.

Irregardless is one non-word that annoys me as well.

[ichabod801]

Irregardless is one non-word that annoys me as well.

This annoys me. Irregardless is a word. Dictionaries don't define what words are. We had lots of words before we ever had a dictionary. Native speakers of the language define what words are. Native speakers of English use and understand irregardless, so it's a word.

[metulburr]

Anything is legit if we use it enough.

Dang du...your CRIB is phat YO! -> Your house is very pleasing to the eye

[Larz60+]

if regardless means 'without paying attention to the present situation; despite the prevailing circumstances.'
then it stands to reason that irregardless would mean 'Paying attention to the present situation; because of the prevailing circumstances.'
Right?

[ichabod801]

No. It stands to reason that irregardless would mean what native speakers of English think it means. You have to let go of the prescriptive mindset.

[Kebap]

So, both "regardless" and "irregardless" actually mean the exact same thing?